A Geek in Beantown

What I've been up to!

I've been making beaded jewelry and trinkets in my unemployed time. You can check out my work at Trinketwerks. My store is through Etsy.

My phoenix

I haven't been here much at all lately and am not sure that I'll be back. I'll keep the domain, etc because the hosting is free (yay, former 6A benefits) and I've paid for the domain, but I tend to post snippets to Twitter or Facebook and longer things elsewhere.

Thank you for reading me all these years!

<3,
Lisa

My brand new phoenix tattoo.

Not sure what to do with this blog...

I don't post here very often anymore. I either leave comments on other people's blogs, post to Facebook or sometimes to another forum. But I am not ready to shut this down yet.

I changed the theme to something more spring-like in the meantime. Who knows, maybe the coming of spring will awaken my urge to write here.

Moving!

Hi all. I'm moving this coming weekend. I just sent email to a BIG list of friends and family, but if you don't get it and think you have a reason to know where I live, please leave a comment or email me directly. :)

See you on the other side!
Lisa

By the numbers

1: number of kitties who slept very close to my pillow last night
2: times I bumped into him in my sleep
2700: entries in my blog (plus this one)
nearly 3: years I've lived in MA
33732: miles my car has gone since I moved here
millions: kisses waiting for me tonight
2: weddings (of my own) I've planned
1: times I've gotten married
65: sneezes I've had this morning (ok, not really that many)
5: the hour that I'll be leaving work today
not-5: the hour that I've been leaving work over the course of the last 2+ weeks
12: miles I commute from my home to work
55: minutes the commute takes (part car, part T)
0: cups of coffee I've already had today
2: hours more sleep I would have enjoyed today
16071*: days I've been alive (more than you probably expected)
11ish: jobs I've had as an adult (a few were part-time consulting gigs)
1: roommate out of town for the holiday weekend
1: kitty will have to sleep alone tonight because I won't be at home
34,156: times I will probably wish that it was 5pm today

many: other things that I thought of when I was driving to Alewife today but can't remember now!

* Oops, bad math. I used a site to do the calculation this time!

My first tattoo

My first tattoo,
originally uploaded by jasra.

I'm very happy with it. Janet came with me (she also recommended Blue Heron and John) and offered to hold my hand when John was working on the underside of my arm. Instead, she talked to me and watched me make funny faces. She also took muuuuuch better pictures, but you'll have to do with the two from my Treo for now.

I'll have to write up why I got this particular design done (I sent a rough design to John and he made it look like something I'd be proud to wear), but not tonight. Tonight I'm sleeeepy.

Updated to add: Janet uploaded her pictures.

Countdown meme

(Found at Sarah's...) TEN FIRSTS First Best Friend: Stephanie. We're still friends but we don't see each other often enough. First Screen Name: Jasra on IRC. First Pet: Hamlet Horatio Holsberg (basset hound we had as kids). First Piercing: Ears. I've gotten them re-pierced since but they've probably closed up again. First Crush: A friend of my stepbrother's. First CD Bought: No idea. First Car: VW Rabbit with manual transmission. First True Love: Dave. First Stuffed Animal: Probably the one pictured here. First Words: No idea. First Game System: Never owned one.

Nine Layers

LAYER ONE: Name: Lisa Birth date: August 28 Birthplace: NJ Current Location: Parker, CO Eye Color: Green Hair Color: Red courtesy of my stylist (otherwise a really dull brown) Height: 5' 5" Righty or Lefty: Righty Zodiac Sign: Virgo LAYER TWO: Your heritage: Russian Jew and ?? The shoes you wore today: Black Dansko Professional Clogs Your weakness: Books, music, movies Your fears: Not having money in the bank, job interviews Your perfect pizza: Pepperoni and mushroom Goal you'd like to achieve: Be the best aunt ever

100 Things about Me

I actually finished this 2 days ago but kept forgetting to mail it to myself at home.

1. I lived 1/2 block from the beach for most of my childhood.
2. I don't swim well.
3. My hair is naturally unruly curly.
4. The red is from my wonderful colorist/stylist, but it works well on me.
5. Better than the blonde highlights I had for the wedding.
6. I let my colorist/stylist do whatever she wants to my hair because it's not permanent and my hair grows fast.
7. I didn't get my drivers license until I was almost 21.
8. I got it so I could buy beer in college.
9. I failed the first time (when I was ~16) because I don't really see out of my right eye.
10. I left in tears and vowed never to go back.
11. I think that's the first time that I was every really aware that my vision was different from everyone else's.
12. I kept the doctor's note (which I had to present when I went to get my license the next time) about my eyes in my car for a couple of years.
13. I only wear one contact. In my "good" eye.
14. But the lenses in my glasses are almost the same Rx.
15. My contact prescription is -11 diopters.
16. I only see a dark spot in the middle of a white spot with my other eye (that's the big "E").
17. Please don't rearrange the room while I'm sleeping or I'm almost guaranteed to walk into something in the middle of the night.
18. Note to self: That applies to you too. See bruise now appearing above left kneecap from trip to guest bedroom in the middle of the night.
19. I bite my nails when I'm stressed.
20. I have acrylic nails so I can't bite them.
21. My parents divorced when I was really young.
22. They both remarried really cool people.
23. I have one brother, 3 step-brothers and 2 step-sisters.
24. They're all back east.
25. My mom and step-father didn't come to my wedding.
26. My dad and step-mom did. We had a great time.
27. I lived in NJ for most of my life, but I don't live there now.
28. I love Colorado.
29. I moved back to NJ once after I moved away.
30. My drivers license didn't even expire (they were were good for around 4 years).
31. I lived in an apartment that was 470 sq ft.
32. With Brad (for ~3 months).
33. We got through that just fine. We even had 2 computers set up in there.
34. I love cats.
35. I'm allergic to them.
36. I take allergy medicine and get shots so I can live with them.
37. I didn't have bad allergies until I was in my early 20s.
38. I have mild asthma too.
39. I'm allergic to a lot of things so I'd be getting shots anyway.
40. I love old movies.
41. Especially with Audrey Hepburn, Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant and Spencer Tracy (to name a few) in them.
42. I love IMDb.
43. I never thought I'd really be happy about driving a truck.
44. But I am.
45. 4WD and muddy dirt roads are a much better combo than FWD and a crappy little car.
46. I have 2 sets of names. One is my Hebrew name.
47. Brad and I got married outside in a beautiful garden.
48. We were married by Revs. Linda and Earl Heflinger.
49. It was a really cool (non-denominational) service.
50. At our wedding, I put the ring on my husband's wrong hand.
51. We laughed about it as we walked down the aisle.
52. I'm a long time Unix geek.
53. I use vi and am happy about it.
54. My manager hits "ESC" a lot when he's in vi just to bug me. :)
55. My husband is a Windows geek.
56. He tells people he married me anyway.
57. I'm not a phone person.
58. But I'm pretty good with email.
59. I'm a very light sleeper.
60. I sleep best in a pitch black room.
61. We keep the blinds up because Katya plays with them.
62. I wear a sleeping mask.
63. Having the radio on (softly) helps me fall back asleep.
64. I'm very sensitive to scents.
65. The smell of lilacs makes me ill.
66. I have tissue boxes in almost all of the rooms in our house (and in our cars).
67. I don't know how I ever managed before I got a Palm Pilot.
68. I have a really good memory.
69. The Palm helps anyway. ;)
70. I learned to drive in a VW Rabbit and VW Bus.
71. I think the first time I drove an automatic was in drivers ed.
72. My best friend taught me how to parallel park and k-turn.
73. There were required for the NJ drivers test.
74. I hadn't driven a RWD car until Brad and I drove his car out from MI. Brad's Firebird was actually the second vehicle I'd driven with RWD. Thank you, friendly reminder man!
75. In a blizzard. In Nebraska.
76. I didn't drive in the blizzard.
77. I would do almost anything for my friends.
78. I wish some of them lived closer though.
79. Brad hates the radio (except for talk stations).
80. I listen to KBCO every morning on my drive to work.
81. I didn't like my middle name growing up.
82. I always sign my name with my middle initial.
83. I saw the Who in concert.
84. In 1982. In Philly.
85. I love to read.
86. I have for as long as I can remember.
87. What I've read so far this year.
88. I'm an atheist.
89. Both of my parents are Jewish. Non-practicing. Both of my step-parents aren't Jewish.
90. I've been in a Synagogue only a handful of times.
91. Being Jewish to me was always about the culture, not the religion.
92. I pay for shareware and believe in supporting the people who write cool software.
93. I like different types of food: Thai, Indian, Japanese, Chinese. My husband doesn't (he likes some Japanese dishes though).
94. I've met a lot of cool people from IRC.
95. I married one of them.
96. Brad told me that he always said he wouldn't get married until he was 35. He said I was 35 so it was close enough.
97. I write letters in my head that are never sent. I "write" to my grandmother (who passed away Nov. '98) all the time.
98. Most days, I wear a cigar band ring that my grandmother gave me on a chain that my grandfather gave her.
99. We were married the same weekend (Memorial Day weekend) as my grandparents.
100. I'm done and I'm posting this before I tweak it any more.

Last updated: Aug 17, 2002

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